Meteorology unit 1
Across
- 1. an instrument on weather balloons that collects and transmits data
- 4. the accumulation of weather events over a long period of time
- 8. a greenhouse gas with the formula CO2
- 13. when air temperature increases with height
- 14. the gas that is 78% of Earth's lower atmosphere
- 15. the layer of Earth's atmosphere up to 10 km
Down
- 2. mass per volume
- 3. occurs naturally in the stratosphere and protects us from the sun's UV rays
- 5. the force exerted by the mass of air above a point
- 6. rate how fast temperature changes with height
- 7. a unit for wind speed
- 9. air in motion
- 10. the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place
- 11. the envelope of gases that surround a planet
- 12. a tropical cyclone with minimum wind speed of 74 mph